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Pride Month 2024: Madhuri to Sushmita, actors who played queer roles on OTT

Updated On: 11 June, 2024 04:01 PM IST | Oshin Fernandes

Pride Month 2024: From Madhuri Dixit in ‘Maja Ma’ to Sushmita Sen in ‘Taali’, check out actors who have played queer roles on OTT. 

Pride Month 2024: From Madhuri Dixit in ‘Maja Ma’ to Sushmita Sen in ‘Taali’, check out actors who have played queer roles on OTT. 

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Pride Month 2024: From Madhuri Dixit in ‘Maja Ma’ to Sushmita Sen in ‘Taali’, check out actors who have played queer roles on OTT. 
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In &lsquo;Maja Ma&rsquo;, Madhuri Dixit, a happily married woman and mother of two kids, comes out as a lesbian to her daughter, a video of which goes viral leaving her maligned and misunderstood in the community.&nbsp;</span></p>

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In ‘Maja Ma’, Madhuri Dixit, a happily married woman and mother of two kids, comes out as a lesbian to her daughter, a video of which goes viral leaving her maligned and misunderstood in the community. 

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Arjun Mathur plays a gay man in &lsquo;Made In Heaven&rsquo; who faces police brutality in the first season after being secretly recorded by his landlord while getting intimate.&nbsp;</span></p>

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Arjun Mathur plays a gay man in ‘Made In Heaven’ who faces police brutality in the first season after being secretly recorded by his landlord while getting intimate. 

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In &lsquo;Sacred Games&rsquo;, Kubbra Sait took the internet by storm with her role as a transwoman named Kukoo, who plays Nawazuddin Siddiqui&rsquo;s love interest. Initially unaware of her sexuality, he eventually finds her naked only to know the truth. The scene remains iconic on Indian OTT.&nbsp;</span></p>

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In ‘Sacred Games’, Kubbra Sait took the internet by storm with her role as a transwoman named Kukoo, who plays Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s love interest. Initially unaware of her sexuality, he eventually finds her naked only to know the truth. The scene remains iconic on Indian OTT. 

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the Sushmita Sen-starrer web series &lsquo;Aarya&rsquo;, actor Vikas Kumar played the role of a gay cop named Inspector Khan.&nbsp;</span></p>

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In the Sushmita Sen-starrer web series ‘Aarya’, actor Vikas Kumar played the role of a gay cop named Inspector Khan. 

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&lsquo;Khufiya&rsquo; is based on true events and is based on a book Escape to Nowhere, written by the former Chief of the Counter Espionage Unit of R&amp;AW, Amar Bhushan. In the film which was released on Netflix, seasoned actress Tabu, an operative at R&amp;AW falls in love with Heena Rehman, who is a Bangladeshi woman supposed to be working for ISI but is killed on a mission.&nbsp;</span></p>

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‘Khufiya’ is based on true events and is based on a book Escape to Nowhere, written by the former Chief of the Counter Espionage Unit of R&AW, Amar Bhushan. In the film which was released on Netflix, seasoned actress Tabu, an operative at R&AW falls in love with Heena Rehman, who is a Bangladeshi woman supposed to be working for ISI but is killed on a mission. 

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ivanka Das played the role of a transwoman named Beauty in the Netflix web series &lsquo;Bombay Begums&rsquo;.&nbsp;</span></p>

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Ivanka Das played the role of a transwoman named Beauty in the Netflix web series ‘Bombay Begums’. 

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Pratik Gandhi plays a gay man in &lsquo;Modern Love Mumbai&rsquo; who grows up in a conservative household and struggles to face the truths of his past.&nbsp;</span></p>

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Pratik Gandhi plays a gay man in ‘Modern Love Mumbai’ who grows up in a conservative household and struggles to face the truths of his past. 

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">`Taali` is a biopic of transgender activist Gauri Sawant in which Sushmita Sen essays the titular role.</span></p>

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`Taali` is a biopic of transgender activist Gauri Sawant in which Sushmita Sen essays the titular role.

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sushant Divgikar played the role of a drag queen in the Bhumi Pednekar-starrer &lsquo;Thank You For Coming&rsquo;.&nbsp;</span></p>

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Sushant Divgikar played the role of a drag queen in the Bhumi Pednekar-starrer ‘Thank You For Coming’. 

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the second season of &lsquo;Made in Heaven&rsquo;, Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju, a doctor by profession,&nbsp; played herself in the series, the role of a transwoman named Meher Chaudhry, who joins the wedding management company.&nbsp;</span></p>

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In the second season of ‘Made in Heaven’, Trinetra Haldar Gummaraju, a doctor by profession,  played herself in the series, the role of a transwoman named Meher Chaudhry, who joins the wedding management company. 

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